We’ve been visiting parkrun as a family for more than 2 years now. Always with a pram, sometimes two. First it was a way to include kids in the marathon training and later on, the Saturday morning became such a strong tradition that every training block was built around it. We started with single running…

206 parkrunners gathered on Saturday to celebrate a significant milestone for one of Ashgrove’s much-loved Run Directors. It was the 250 milestone, Ashgrove’s first and, in keeping with the shirt colour to be awarded, green was the theme colour of the day. The briefing took on a festive air with congratulatory speeches, green cupcakes…

I would love to share my parkrun story with you, including my international parkrun tourism. I first started parkrun in 2013, after my sister, Kylie, had come across Torrens parkrun in Adelaide. It took a couple of weeks for her to convince me to go, but like many others, once you start you can’t…

I LOVE this photo. To me, it epitomizes what parkrun is ALL about. I am a regular runner and volunteer at Wondai parkrun. This shot was taken on our 100th event in Wondai. I had the delightful experience of a young man called Rob running with me for pretty much the whole event. So,…

I managed to run until I was 37 weeks pregnant, then volunteered as tailwalker at many different parkruns. I tailwalked at my home parkrun, then the next day I had my 3rd beautiful baby boy. The following week Saturday came and we were back at our home parkrun (Reynella East) as timekeeper. It truly…

I just wanted to say an extra thank you to one of the volunteers and her two young helpers (not pictured) when I visited Chipping Norton the other week. In addition to getting to parkrun by 8am on a Saturday morning with two youngsters in tow (no small achievement in itself), she gave up…

I have been asked many times, why do I use poles for walking? The simple answer is for my health and well-being. I have been an avid walker most of my life until two years ago when I had a total hip replacement. It left me 7mm out on one hip which has now developed…

Following on from a recent completely random fact about junior volunteers I wanted to share this with you from Calleya parkrun in Western Australia. Today we celebrated one of our juniors who has so far done 43 runs, but the reason for the celebration was this morning she did her 25th Volunteers position. Ella…